Michael Wildes

Michael Jay Wildes (27 November 1964-) was Mayor of Englewood from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019.

Biography
Michael Wildes was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1964, the grandson of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors and the son of an immigration lawyer who was famous for his successful 1972 defense of John Lennon and Yoko Ono from deportation. He served as an auxiliary police officer for the NYPD from 1982 to 1992, and he became a federal prosecutor in 1989 and later an immigration lawyer, with Melania Trump being one of his high-profile clients. From 1998 to 2003, he served on the Englewood City Council, and he served as Mayor from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019. He endorsed improving public education in his city, fought against overdevelopment, and sought to halt new property taxes, earning Bill Clinton's support for his successful 2006 re-election campaign. In 2007, Wildes was appointed to serve on Governor Jon Corzine's immigration panel, and he recommended that comprehensive immigration reform should be incoming President Barack Obama's main priority upon his inauguration in 2009.